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| Here's a picture of me in my field area in Wyoming. This is where I did research for both my Masters and Ph.D. I'm standing on Cretaceous rocks overlooking exposures of the Paleocene Hanna Formation (the whitish rocks in the background). This is my usual field gear: brown camo pants, pink man's dress shirt, beat-up straw hat, field vest (with stuffed penguin in the pocket) and giant backpack. Sometimes, I'd have 60 pounds of rocks in that pack. What was I thinking? |
| Don't ever let anyone tell you that the wind don't blow in Wyoming. This was pretty typical for my field area. This photo was taken probably a summer after the one above. You'll notice that my hair is significantly shorter. You'll also notice that I'm wearing the same clothes. I'm sitting on a fault low in the Hanna Formation. The little knobs sticking out of the rock are the bottoms of crayfish(?) burrows. That particular layer of rock, which once was horizontal, is now vertical with the top facing away from the camera. Through the little arch, you can see the Beer Mug anticline. It's a magnificent fold in rocks older than the Hanna Formation. It formed when most of the mountains in Wyoming formed, during the Laramide orogeny (70-40 million years ago). |
| Here's me now in Florida. This was a special program called 'Museum Mysteries.' I'm in the exhibit hall at the Florida Museum of Natural History showing this young lady how cool multituberculate mammals are. They're one of my favorite groups. Too bad they're extinct. I named two new species of multituberculate in my dissertation... coming soon to a journal near you. |
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| I had a lot of fun working at Museum Mysteries. I hope the kids had as much fun as me.. |
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